Back to Search
Start Over
Travel risk perception and travel behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020: a case study of the DACH region.
- Source :
- Current Issues in Tourism; Apr2021, Vol. 24 Issue 7, p1003-1016, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
-
Abstract
- The study examined the relationship between perception of COVID-19, travel risk perception and travel behaviour among travellers in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) – an important tourism market and, after Italy, the second region in Europe that was impacted by COVID-19. Data were collected at two points of time: the sample of the study in Period 1 (n = 1158) was collected at a critical point in time in the beginning of March 2020, when Italy was already massively affected by COVID-19; the sample of the study in Period 2 (n = 212) was collected two weeks later, when Europe has seen immense impacts and COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. Cluster analysis was performed and defined three unique clusters in both periods with distinctive characteristics. In addition, results revealed a significant increase in risk perception of COVID-19, travel risk perception and travel behaviour over a short period of time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- TRAVEL safety
COVID-19 pandemic
RISK perception
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13683500
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Current Issues in Tourism
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 149596496
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2020.1803807